9 1Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was
in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of
Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously
afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the
nations. 2The people that walked in darkness have seen a
great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death,
upon them hath the light shined. 3Thou hast multiplied
the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee
according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide
the spoil. 4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden,
and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the
day of Midian. 5For every battle of the warrior is with
confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with
burning and fuel of fire. 6For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7Of
the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon
the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

8The
Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9And
all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of
Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10The
bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the
sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11Therefore
the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join
his enemies together; 12The Syrians before, and the
Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched
out still.

13For the people turneth not unto him that
smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. 14Therefore
the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in
one day. 15The ancient and honourable, he is the head;
and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16For
the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led
of them are destroyed. 17Therefore the LORD shall have no
joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless
and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every
mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.

18For wickedness burneth
as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle
in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the
lifting up of smoke. 19Through the wrath of the LORD of
hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of
the fire: no man shall spare his brother. 20And he shall
snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the
left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man
the flesh of his own arm: 21Manasseh, Ephraim; and
Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all
this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.

10 1Woe unto
them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness
which they have prescribed; 2To turn aside the needy from
judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people,
that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the
desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help?
and where will ye leave your glory? 4Without me they
shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the
slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.

5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger,
and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6I will
send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of
my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take
the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not
Samaria as Damascus? 10As my hand hath found the kingdoms
of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem
and of Samaria; 11Shall I not, as I have done unto
Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12Wherefore
it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole
work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of
the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high
looks. 13For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have
done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the
bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have
put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: 14And my
hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one
gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and
there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh
it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up,
or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
16Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among
his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning
like the burning of a fire. 17And the light of Israel
shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn
and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18And
shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,
both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer
fainteth. 19And the rest of the trees of his forest shall
be few, that a child may write them.

20And it shall come
to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are
escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him
that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of
Israel, in truth. 21The remnant shall return, even the
remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 22For though thy
people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall
return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption,
even determined, in the midst of all the land.

24Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion,
be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and
shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall
cease, and mine anger in their destruction. 26And the
LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the
slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the
sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 27And
it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken
away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the
yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 28He is
come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up
his carriages: 29They are gone over the passage: they
have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul
is fled. 30Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause
it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. 31Madmenah is
removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 32As
yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against
the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 33Behold,
the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and
the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall
be humbled. 34And he shall cut down the thickets of the
forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

11 1And
there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch
shall grow out of his roots: 2And the spirit of the LORD
shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear
of the LORD; 3And shall make him of quick understanding
in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of
his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4But
with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity
for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the
rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the
wicked. 5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his
loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6The
wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them. 7And the
cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8And
the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned
child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. 9They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the
sea.

10And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,
which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the
Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. 11And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand
again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which
shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and
from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from
the islands of the sea. 12And he shall set up an ensign
for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and
gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the
earth. 13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14But they shall fly
upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall
spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom
and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15And
the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and
with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and
shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his
people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel
in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.